Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS staff have been made redundant and subsequently re-employed by NHS organisations on a (a) permanent basis and (b) fixed-term contract basis since May 2010.

The following table shows the number of redundancies from 2010/11 financial year to 2017/18 financial year and those subsequently re-employed up to the end of September 2018. As time goes by the numbers of those returning is likely to increase in relation to those made redundant in previous years.

These estimates are derived from un-validated data from the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Data Warehouse, and so only cover redundancies from, and re-employment to, those organisations that use the ESR. The ESR Data Warehouse is a monthly snap shot of the live ESR system, which is the HR and payroll system that covers all National Health Service employees other than those working in general practice, two NHS foundation trusts that have chosen not to use the system, and organisations to which functions have been transferred, such as local authorities.

In cases where an individual has been made redundant on more than one occasion only the first redundancy is counted. In cases where an individual returns more than once only the first case after the redundancy is included.